Bobbie’s power armor, Miller’s suit (and hat!), Amos’ coveralls and shotgun, Holden’s MCRN armor, full flight suits for Drummer and Naomi, Avasarala’s final dress (and scorpion stilettos!), Peaches’ engineering outfit, Julie’s necklace, Alex’s medical cuff, and an entire Roci flight chair... these are just the featured lots in an online auction starting August 8th.
People have been DIYing this for years, but it looks like Amazon just started stocking bespoke tool battery adapters in 2022! Friend of mine says his Dyson V6 one works great and — importantly — has low voltage cutoff when installed. (DeWalt famously puts protection in the tool, not the battery.)
Just bought one. If I brick a battery, I’ll let you know!
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At around 10AM PT, Getty Images’ Justin Sullivan captured this photo showing the blue bird had gone. You could still make out an outline — but by 12:20PM PT, workers had all but cleaned that up. The far side of the Twitter sign is equally bare, according to this video.
Musk’s flashy rooftop X may be no more, but the symbol will probably reappear on this sign soon.
Fresh off inventing the railjet, r/HyruleEngineering has now discovered “stake nudging” — a new technique that lets you create invisible connections between objects.
In this case, it let u/divlogue create flying laser drones akin to the funnels you’ll find in Japanese mecha anime and video games like Gradius. (Real-world loyal wingman drones have been attempted, too.)
This isn’t the only form of quantum entanglement in Zelda. Check out this remote-control airplane, too!
That’s all we know, save it may use the same AMD Phoenix chips as Asus’ ROG Ally. The report speculates it’ll be a Windows handheld because it has a Ryzen chip, but that doesn’t follow — the Linux-based Steam Deck shipped with Ryzen guts.
It also speculates the ROG Ally’s Z1 Extreme chip might have an advantage over AMD Phoenix. But since Z1 Extreme is a Phoenix, I’d take that with a grain of salt.
Q2 2023 earnings are down 15 percent to $12.9 billion, but Intel’s stopped the bleed — it’s actually making profit of $1.5 billion, after consecutive $2.8B and $0.7B quarterly losses. (Revenue dipped 36 percent last quarter.) Even PC chips are only down 12 percent, compared to the 16.6 percent or 13.4 percent decline in global PC shipments that Gartner and IDC reported two weeks back.
Intel says its slightly rebranded Meteor Lake chips are still coming in 2H 2023 — at least one of them in Q3 specifically.
Today I learned one California police department freely shows you when, where, and why it flies surveillance drones over the city, so the public can sanity-check. But what about the other 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA?
Every city and state has to decide how much drone surveillance is appropriate, and the ACLU’s just-published overview of law enforcement drone surveillance fears can help bring you up to speed on the nuances.
[American Civil Liberties Union]
